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“Alligator Alcatraz snaps back to life after judges’ reprieve of Florida’s migrant jail” The Workers Circle featured in the Guardian
In case you missed it, the Guardian featured a story about the Workers Circle’s efforts to organize vigils outside of the inhumane immigrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz.
Standing Up to ICE Is a Moral Imperative.
In this powerful op-ed in The Progressive magazine, Ann Toback, CEO of the Workers Circle, draws a chilling parallel between her great uncle’s disappearance during the Holocaust and the current wave of ICE raids targeting noncitizen residents across the U.S. She exposes how federal agents, often aided by local sheriffs, are detaining immigrants without due process, and calls on communities to take action. Through the #DisappearedInAmerica campaign, Toback urges voters to pressure their elected sheriffs to stop cooperating with ICE, warning that these unconstitutional actions threaten not just immigrants — but the future of American democracy itself.
“Disappeared in America”: Social Justice Leaders, Including Workers Circle Director of Social Justice Noelle Damico, Unite to Expose Unlawful Detentions and Demand Accountability
Juan Cuba of Sheriff Accountability Action and Noelle Damico of the Workers Circle join Court Accountability Action’s Lisa Graves to discuss the “Disappeared in America” campaign—a cross-coalition collaboration across social justice groups that demands accountability for those who have been unlawfully detained and deported by the Trump administration
New York Residents Participate in Nationwide Demonstrations Confronting the Trump Administration’s Illegal Abductions, Detentions, and Deportations
On Thursday, June 26 at 12:00 noon, the Workers Circle gathered NYC residents at Thurgood Marshall Courthouse to join activists across the country for #DisappearedInAmerica, a national day of action led by a coalition of immigrant rights, faith, rule of law, and pro-democracy organizations.
The Workers Circle joined an amicus brief supporting a Tufts student detained after campus protests, standing for free expression, due process, and student rights.
Jewish Organizations From Across the US Including the Workers Circle File Motion to Submit Amicus Brief in Support of Detained Tufts Student
The Workers Circle denounces the Trump administration’s abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a lawfully present Turkish Ph.D. student and Fulbright Scholar at Tufts, and calls for her immediate release.
On Tuesday, masked federal agents abruptly confronted Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts and a Fulbright scholar on the sidewalk, took her phone, and swept her into an unmarked vehicle. They refused to clearly identify themselves, showed no warrant or badges, and did not tell her why she was being arrested. Despite a court order that she remain in Massachusetts, she is being held in Louisiana in violation of the US Constitution’s guarantee of due process. Her student visa has been cancelled.
